Editing 1101: Sketchiness

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| number    = 1101
| date      = August 29, 2012
| title     = Sketchiness
| image     = sketchiness.png
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| titletext = factory --- spire --- onslaught --- extractor --- judge
}}

==Explanation==
Sketchy is an adjective meaning not thorough or detailed, but which in modern slang is often used to connote creepiness, or a general feeling that something is not quite right. Urban Dictionary provides a good definition of "someone or something that gives off a bad feeling".

In this comic, [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] rates words by how sketchy make the sentence "Hey baby, wanna come back to my sex ____?" when inserted into the blank. As noted from the scale (which already starts at "sketchy" and goes up to "very sketchy", the sentence itself is already inherently sketchy, in that it sounds like it would be a pickup line delivered by a person attempting to solicit sex from a stranger.

The sketchiness is increased by the various words which run from the ''relatively'' common or understood to the obscure and unusual.

The first few are actual terminology: A sex party or sex orgy are basically group sex parties at which multiple parties engage in sexual activity. A sex dungeon is a location where BDSM (bondage/submission - think leather and handcuffs) activity is engaged in. As the scale increases, the words become simply locations where sex might take place (a sex house, a sex room) which increase from comfortable to unusual and creepy (i.e. sex crate, sex ravine, sex tarp). It is particularly sketchy because of the phrasing of the sentence which implies the speaker has a specific [insert word] used for sex. It might be sketchy enough to walk up to someone and suggest "let's go down in the ravine and have sex", but it is made sketchier when the phrasing suggests going to "my sex ravine".

Sex House is the Onion New Network's parody of reality shows like Big Brother. Here the producers are conspiring to have the housemates have sex and not allowing them to leave despite very unsafe conditions. When the black gay housemate protested by drawing Mohammad on his forehead, he was put in chains. The only housemates who have actually had sex are the married man and an 18 year old virgin, whom he impregnated. (He also had sex with and impregnated a fake psychologist who visited one episode.) Originally they had nothing to drink but alcohol and no food but a little phallic-shaped sausage. They were later given only bananas to eat, so many that they rotted, grew deadly mold, and attracted swarms of flies. The network's response was to provide a terrarium of frogs. At one point they provided a drink that contained hallucinogenic drug, which made them horny but impotent. The housemates eventually stopped drinking it after seeing how quickly it killed the frogs. 


The title text continues the thought process with further possible sketchy words, beginning with more odd locations and moving on to "onslaught", an abundant wave of attack or overwhelming amount of something - in this case sex; "extractor" suggests some sort of device that might force someone to have sex; and finally "judge", suggesting the speaker has someone in mind to judge sex. Very sketchy indeed.

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